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There comes a point in business where your work is no longer asking to simply be delivered by you, it’s asking to become something bigger than you.
In this final episode of Season 2 of By the Fire with Faye, we explore the stage of business that many healers, therapists, and spiritual entrepreneurs arrive at, the moment where your work has depth, transformation, and demand… but the training school, certification, or practitioner pathway still doesn’t exist, even though you know it's the next step for expansion and are excited about it!
Because building a transformational practice and building a training school are two entirely different things.
Together, we explore:
I also share my own journey building both an award-winning franchise company and an accredited eco-somatics training school, and why now I am so passionate about helping practitioners bridge the gap between transformational depth and scalable business structure.
This episode is for the woman who knows her work is ready to expand beyond direct delivery and is finally ready to stop carrying the vision alone.
Depth without structure stays small. Structure without depth feels hollow.
We’re often taught to make decisions in business through logic alone.
Through planning. Through timelines.
But there are other rhythms at play.
In this episode of By the Fire with Faye, I’m joined by Gina King, founder of Wild as the Moon, to explore astrology as a tool for conscious business decision-making, timing, and deeper alignment.
Because not every moment is meant for the same kind of action.
Together, we explore:
Conscious decision-making isn’t just about what you do, it’s about understanding when the energy is truly ready to support it.
You can say Hi to Gina on Instragram here.
For more information on Faye's work supporting lineage & training school founders click here.
For women, decision-making is not separate from the body.
It’s not separate from our energy.
In this episode of By the Fire with Faye, I’m joined by Samantha Hadadi, also known as The Hormone Goddess, to explore how our hormonal cycles influence the way we think, feel and make decisions in business.
Because the same decision can feel clear, expansive, and aligned one week and heavy, overwhelming, or impossible the next.
Not because you’ve lost clarity but because your body has shifted.
Together, we explore:
For more information about Sam's work say Hi on Instagram.
And for more information about Faye's work visit here.
In this episode of By the Fire with Faye, I’m joined by Emma Griffin, modern witch, intuitive guide, and author, to explore what it really means to come home to your soul path, and how ancestral wisdom shapes the way we choose, lead, and live.
Because the voice guiding you forward often doesn’t feel new.
It feels ancient.
Together, we explore:
This is a conversation for the woman who feels the pull toward something deeper but knows that following it will ask her to choose differently.
Some decisions aren’t about figuring it out, they’re about remembering who you are and trusting it enough to act.
For more information about Emma visit: www.emmagriffinwitch.co.uk
And for more information about Faye visit: www.fayeoftheforest.co.uk
Not all business decisions are made from clarity alone.
Sometimes… they’re shaped by your nervous system.
In this episode of By the Fire with Faye, I’m joined by Samantha Stein (Yo Samdy Sam), creator of Wild Brains, to explore how neurodiversity and trauma influence the way we make decisions in business.
Because for many women, especially those who are neurodivergent, decision-making isn’t just about knowing what to do next.
It’s about capacity.
Together, we explore:
This is a conversation for anyone who has felt overwhelmed, inconsistent, or out of sync with the way they’ve been told to build their business.
Your business doesn’t have to be something you force yourself into, it can be something that supports you to thrive.
You can find Samantha on Youtube here and work with her through her Spark program here.
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In this episode of By the Fire with Faye, I’m joined by Sarah Hayes, founder of Embodied Wealth, to explore conscious decision-making through the lens of nervous system, capacity and our relationship with money.
Because business decisions aren’t just strategic.
Together, we explore:
This is a conversation for the woman who feels the pull to build differently, with more awareness, more integrity, and more alignment with who she truly is.
There comes a point where your work stops being something you simply offer and becomes something you are responsible for.
In this episode of By the Fire with Faye, we explore the shift that happens when your work begins to grow beyond you. when its impact deepens, its reach expands, and leadership becomes unavoidable.
Because in the beginning, your work is personal.
But as it begins to land… as more people enter your world… as the work starts to change how others live, relate, and lead…
Something shifts.
Your work is no longer just yours.
And that calls for consciousness in decision making.
This episode explores the transition from running a business… to stewarding a body of work.
We move into:
We also explore where strategy truly enters the conversation.
Not surface-level growth tactics, but conscious, long-term decision-making about how your work evolves, expands, and is held, by you and beyond you.
Because when you are inside your work, you can feel its potential, but you can’t always see the path clearly.
This is the threshold many women reach, where their work is no longer small, where expansion feels both exciting and weighty, and where the decisions ahead begin to matter in a different way.
What you choose here at this threshold shapes everything that follows.
If this episode landed for you I would love to know why - drop me a message on Instagram here :)
As your work begins to grow, a quiet but important question emerges:
How do you expand something that changes lives…
In this episode, I explore the art and responsibility of designing containers that can hold transformation, even as your work reaches more people.
Because depth is not something that happens by accident.
In this Episode, we explore:
• Why depth requires container design
• The difference between content/information and transformation
• The anatomy of a depth container - The 5 pillars needed
• The expansion paths for transformational work
• Why structure protects (not restricts) your work
• Recognising what your work is asking for next
This Episode Is For You If:
• You’re concerned about losing depth as your work grows
An Invitation - If you’re at the stage of shaping or evolving your containers, the Rooted Compass Session offers a private space to explore the structure your work is asking for and how to support its next phase - click here for more info.
In Episode 4, we explore lineage, legacy, and stewardship and how to protect the integrity of your work as it expands through others.
With thanks and quiet gratitude, until next time.
There is a point in the evolution of your work where growth alone is no longer the edge.
Your work is expanding.
But something within you hasn’t quite caught up yet.
In this episode, I explore the often-unspoken threshold that practitioners cross when they move from holding the work… to leading and shaping it.
Because this transition is not just strategic.
And it asks you to become someone new in relation to your work.
In this Episode, we explore:
• Practitioner identity vs leadership identity
• The emotional edges of leadership
• Why structure becomes essential
• The role of strategic thinking at this stage
• Recognising the leadership threshold
This Episode Is For You If:
• Your work is growing, but your role within it feels unclear
An Invitation
If you recognise yourself at this threshold, the Rooted Compass Session offers a private space to explore the next stage of your work and the structures that may support it - click here for details.
In Episode 3, we explore how to build containers that can hold depth, even as your work expands to reach more people.
With thanks and quiet gratitude, until next time.
There comes a moment in the path of a practitioner that is rarely spoken about.
A moment when your work is no longer something you simply offer…
In this opening episode of Series 2, I explore the quiet but profound transition from practitioner to steward and the responsibility that emerges when your work begins to take on a life of its own.
If you’ve felt your work deepening, expanding, or reaching beyond your immediate control, this conversation will meet you there.
In this Episode, we explore:
• When your work becomes a body of work
• The difference between running a business and stewarding work
• Why growth is not just about scaling — and what it means to protect the integrity, depth, and long-term life of your work.
• The responsibility that comes with transformational work
• Why many practitioners resist this stage
• The new questions that begin to lead you
This Episode Is For You If:
• Your work is growing beyond 1:1 sessions or small groups
An Invitation
If this episode stirred something in you, if you recognise that your work is entering a new stage, you don’t have to navigate it alone.
Your Rooted Compass Session is a private, strategic space to explore:
You’ll find more details here.
In Episode 2, we explore the leadership threshold. The moment you move from facilitating work… to leading and shaping it.
With thanks and quiet gratitude, until next time.
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to By the Fire with Faye.
A podcast for medicine women, transformational founders, practitioners and wild leaders whose work is no longer just something they offer… but something they are being called to expand, structure, and lead at a higher level.
I’m Faye of the Forest: Strategic Adviser, founder of the Expansion Wheel™, and the woman behind the movement helping transformational leaders build training schools, certifications, lineages and bodies of work that can grow beyond them, without losing their depth.
This is where we gather around the fire to speak honestly about what happens when your work begins asking for more.
More leadership.
More structure.
More precision.
More responsibility for the impact your work creates.
Because there comes a point where the conversation is no longer just about starting or growing a business.
It becomes about:
how to scale transformational work without diluting it,
how to lead consciously while making commercially sound decisions,
and how to build something sustainable enough to carry your work into its next era.
This is where conscious business decisions matter.
Not just strategy for growth.
Not just intuition for direction.
But the grounded meeting point between vision, leadership, structure and expansion.
Through conversations, storytelling, strategic insight and honest reflection, we explore:
🔥 The evolution from practitioner to leader, architect and steward
🌿 Building training schools, certifications and scalable transformational businesses
🌑 Conscious decision-making in business and leadership
🜂 The Expansion Wheel™ and how to direct your energy strategically
🌹 Scaling your impact and income without burning out or losing integrity
🌲 The structures, standards and leadership required to hold transformational work properly
Because this stage of the path asks something different of you.
Not just visibility.
Not just success.
But conscious expansion.
So pull up a chair. The fire’s warm.
🎧 Series 2: Conscious Expansion & the Leadership of Transformational Work
For women ready to build work that lasts beyond them.
For more information about Faye:
https://www.fayeoftheforest.co.uk
Or connect on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/fayeoftheforest_businessmentor